Structural rigidity of generalised Volterra operators on H^p

Abstract: We show that the non-compact generalised analytic Volterra operators

T_{g}

, where

g i n m a t h i t B M O A

, have the following structural rigidity property on the Hardy spaces

H^{p}

for

1 l e p < i n f t y

and

p e q 2

: if

T_{g}

is bounded below on an infinite-dimensional subspace

M s u b s e t H^{p}

, then

M

contains a subspace linearly isomorphic to

e l l^{p}

. This implies in particular that any Volterra operator

T_{g} c o l o n H^{p} o H^{p}

is

e l l^{2}

-singular for

p e q 2

.

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